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J. ~ they/them ~ 24

[omtai]

why is it sooo hard to conclude essays. I said all that because fuck you thats why

[cherubg1rl]

[kosmogrl]

if nobody got me I know listening to music and creating fake scenarios got me

[freakoutgirl]

Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.

[kosmogrl]

2026 ins:

- being cringe

- whimsymaxing

[roaldamundsen]

give it up for bread with soup

[heroofshield]

[dogsuffrage]

I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.

[fairycosmos]

if something fundamental in me wasn’t missing i would be so fun to be around

[homunculus-argument]

Between the nothingburger and the everything bagel, there is the somewhat sandwich.

[tweeterwilbury]

Collecting those rn

[tweeterwilbury]

[tweeterwilbury]

[tweeterwilbury]

[lustcannibalism]

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

[lustcannibalism]

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[herbertwest]

A SECOND TURTLEDOVE HAS HIT THE PEAR TREE

[spiteswallow]

I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.

[spiteswallow]

And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did

[lindstromm]

Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (about the 2008 stock market collapse).

The Caesar's Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Corruption of the Private Equity Industry by Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap. (I admit I've never finished this one; the writing is hard to read.)

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, by Zac Bissonette. I bought this book because of the subtitle and I have never regretted it. You must read it.

Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. They turned this one into a movie! The book was very different and is worth reading.

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. I haven't read this one yet, but it's on my tbr pile!

Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore. I'm reading this one right now. The author is a financial journalist who stumbled onto this story by unraveling a bank failure in Spain.

And here's a list of more non-fiction books about fraud and financial scams. The first book on this list is about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, which I also haven't read yet.

Enjoy!

[ozth]

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

[deeunderscore]

doing research before going outside

[nudityandnerdery]

Tulsi Gabbard is firing trans federal employees for "sex chats" that never happened - LGBTQ Nation

Gabbard's move is based on wildly exaggerated "reporting" from far-right strategist Christopher Rufo.

This is an important lesson in how propaganda works. By saying they were fired for "sexually explicit" conversations, it's establishing that things related to being trans or queer- like discussing hormones or pronouns, both of which are things that are actually in the chat- are pornographic and explicit. It's treating any sort of queer identity discussion as sexual content.

Now, follow the math on this. When they convince people that talking about anything related to being trans is pornographic (see page 5 of Project 2025) and that exposing children to it should be registered as a sex offender (same paragraph of Project 2025), and then later says that the death penalty should be applied to people convicted of "particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children" (page 554 of Project 2025), do you understand how this is the first step towards criminalizing any sort of discussion of being transgender and where they're laying the groundwork for killing people over it?

[antiterfbutch]

This is why I utterly loathe gender critical gay people. Of all people, our community should understand this playbook. It wasn't that long ago that they were using this kind of rhetoric against us. This shit happened in my own fucking lifetime.

You're so desperate to justify your hatred of trans people that you voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party, and you're going to be real fucking shocked when they come for our faces, too.